Treatment of varicose veins. An update.

The modern injection-compression sclerotherapy, as described by Fegan of Ireland and Sigg of Switzerland, bears little resemblance to the injection treatment of varicose veins as used in the United States in the 1940s. Sotredecol (sodium tetradecyl sulfate) is the agent injected, and no more than 0.5 ml is used at any one site.

Surgical treatment of diverticulitis. Experience at a large Municipal Hospital.

In the past 5 1/2 years, 71 patients with diverticulitis were operated on--20.8% of all cases of diverticulitis admitted to the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center. Operative mortality was 22%, primarily because of delayed diagnosis, inadequate surgery, and a high incidence of associated disease.

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE OF PROSTATIC AND VESICULAR TRANSPLANTS IN THE ANTERIOR CHAMBER OF THE EYE.

1. With a photographic method for the determination of the size of prostatic and vesicular transplants in the anterior chamber of the eye, it has been possible to follow continuously the response to an injection of a hormone. 2.

VARIATION IN THE SIZE OF TRANSPLANTS OF THE PROSTATE AND SEMINAL VESICLE IN THE ANTERIOR CHAMBER OF THE EYE.

1. A method is described with which the two-dimensional size of a transplant in the anterior chamber of the eye may be measured daily with a high degree of accuracy. 2.